Provided by: intel-cmt-cat_1.2.0-1_amd64 
NAME
pqos, pqos-msr, pqos-os - Intel(R) Resource Director Technology monitoring and control tool
SYNOPSIS
pqos [OPTIONS]...
DESCRIPTION
Intel(R) Resource Director Technology is designed to monitor and manage cpu resources and improve
performance of applications and virtual machines.
Intel(R) Resource Director Technology includes monitoring and control technologies. Monitoring
technologies include CMT (Cache Monitoring Technology), which monitors occupancy of last level cache, and
MBM (Memory Bandwidth Monitoring). Control technologies include CAT (Cache Allocation Technology) and
CDP (Code Data Prioritization).
pqos supports CMT and MBM on a per core or hardware thread basis. MBM supports two types of events
reporting local and remote memory bandwidth.
pqos-msr and pqos-os are simple pqos wrapper scripts that automatically select the MSR or OS/Kernel
library interface to program the technologies.
Please see the -I option below for more information.
For hardware information please refer to the README located on: https://github.com/01org/intel-cmt-
cat/blob/master/README
OPTIONS
pqos options are as follow:
-h, --help
show help
-v, --verbose
verbose mode
-V, --super-verbose
super-verbose mode
-l FILE, --log-file=FILE
log messages into selected log FILE
-s, --show
show the current allocation and monitoring configuration
-d, --display
display supported Intel(R) Resource Director Technology capabilities
-D, --display-verbose
display supported Intel(R) Resource Director Technology capabilities in verbose mode
-f FILE, --config-file=FILE
load commands from selected configuration FILE
-e CLASSDEF, --alloc-class=CLASSDEF
define the allocation classes on all CPU sockets. CLASSDEF format is "TYPE:ID=DEFINITION;...".
define classes for selected CPU resources. CLASSDEF format is
"TYPE[@RESOURCE_ID]:ID=DEFINITION;...".
For CAT, TYPE is "llc" for the last level cache (aka l3) and "l2" for level 2 cache, ID is a CLOS
number and DEFINITION is a bitmask.
For MBA, TYPE is "mba", ID is a CLOS number and DEFINITION is a value between 1 and 100
representing the percentage of available memory bandwidth.
RESOURCE_ID is a unique number that can represent a socket or l2/l3 cache identifier. The
RESOURCE_ID for each logical CPU can be found using "pqos -s"
Note: When CDP is on, ID can be postfixed with 'D' for data or 'C' for code. CDP is not available
for l2.
Some examples:
"-e llc:0=0xffff;llc:1=0x00ff;llc@0-1:2=0xff00;l2:2=0x3f;l2@2:1=0xf"
"-e llc:0d=0xfff;llc:0c=0xfff00"
"-e mba:1=30;mba@1:3=80"
Note:
"-e l2:2=0x3f" means that COS2 for all L2 cache clusters is changed to 0x3f.
"-e l2@2:1=0xf" means that COS1 for L2 cache cluster 2 is changed to 0xf.
"-e mba:1=30" means that COS1, on all sockets, can utilize up to 30% of available memory
bandwidth.
-a CLASS2ID, --alloc-assoc=CLASS2ID
associate allocation classes with cores. CLASS2ID format is "TYPE:ID=CORE_LIST;..." or
"TYPE:ID=TASK_LIST;...".
For CAT, TYPE is "llc", "core" or "pid" and ID is a class number. CORE_LIST is comma or dash
separated list of cores. TASK_LIST is comma or dash separated list of process/task ID's.
For example:
"-a llc:0=0,2,4,6-10;llc:1=1;" associates cores 0, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 with CAT class 0
and core 1 with class 1.
"-a core:0=0,2,4,6-10;core:1=1;" associates cores 0, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 with CAT class 0
and core 1 with class 1.
"-I -a pid:0=3543,7643,4556;pid:1=7644;" associates process ID 3543, 7643, 4556 with CAT
class 0 and process ID 7644 with class 1.
Note:
The -I option must be used for PID association.
-R [CONFIG], --alloc-reset[=CONFIG]
reset allocation setting (L3 CAT, L2 CAT) and reconfigure L3 CDP. CONFIG is one of the following
options:
l3cdp-on sets L3 CDP on
l3cdp-off sets L3 CDP off
l3cdp-any keep current L3 CDP setting (default)
-m EVTCORES, --mon-core=EVTCORES
select the cores and events for monitoring, EVTCORES format is "EVENT:CORE_LIST". Valid EVENT
settings are:
- "llc" for CMT (LLC occupancy)
- "mbr" for MBR (remote memory bandwidth)
- "mbl" for MBL (local memory bandwidth)
- "all" or "" for all detected event types
CORE_LIST is comma or dash separated list of cores.
Example "-m all:0,2,4-10;llc:1,3;mbr:11-12".
Core statistics can be grouped by enclosing the core list in square brackets.
Example "-m llc:[0-3];all:[4,5,6];mbr:[0-3],7,8".
-p [EVTPIDS], --mon-pid[=EVTPIDS]
select top 10 most active (CPU utilizing) process ids to monitor
or select the process ids and events to monitor, EVTPIDS format is "EVENT:PID_LIST".
See -m option for valid EVENT settings. PID_LIST is comma separated list of process ids.
Examples "-p llc:22,25673" or "-p all:892,4588-4592".
Note:
Requires Linux and kernel versions 4.1 and newer.
The -I option must be used for PID monitoring.
It is not possible to track both processes and cores at the same time.
-T, --mon-top
enable top like monitoring output sorted by highest LLC occupancy
-o FILE, --mon-file FILE
select output FILE to store monitored data in, the default is 'stdout'
-u TYPE, --mon-file-type=TYPE
select the output format TYPE for monitored data. Supported TYPE settings are: "text" (default),
"xml" and "csv".
-i INTERVAL, --mon-interval=INTERVAL
define monitoring sampling INTERVAL in 100ms units, 1=100ms, default 10=10x100ms=1s
-t SECONDS, --mon-time=SECONDS
define monitoring time in seconds, use 'inf' or 'infinite' for infinite monitoring. Use CTRL+C to
stop monitoring at any time.
-r, --mon-reset
reset monitoring and use all RMID's and cores in the system
-H, --profile-list
list supported allocation profiles
-c PROFILE, --profile-set=PROFILE
select a PROFILE from predefined allocation classes, use -H to list available profiles
-I, --iface-os
set the library interface to use the kernel implementation. If not set the default implementation
is to program the MSR's directly.
NOTES
CMT, MBM and CAT are configured using Model Specific Registers (MSRs). The pqos software executes in user
space, and access to the MSRs is obtained through a standard Linux* interface. The msr file interface is
protected and requires root privileges. The msr driver might not be auto-loaded and on some modular
kernels the driver may need to be loaded manually:
For Linux:
sudo modprobe msr
For FreeBSD:
sudo kldload cpuctl
Interface enforcement:
If you require system wide interface enforcement you can do so by setting the "RDT_IFACE" environment
variable.
SEE ALSO
msr(4)
AUTHOR
pqos was written by Tomasz Kantecki <tomasz.kantecki@intel.com>, Marcel Cornu <marcel.d.cornu@intel.com>, Aaron Hetherington <aaron.hetherington@intel.com> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. November 16, 2017 PQOS(8)